Zabaan School for Languages

Evening Hindi Classes

Designed specifically for the working professional or full-time student, our 90-minute evening group Hindi classes are held after working hours twice a week for ten weeks so you can achieve your language proficiency goals without disrupting your busy schedule.

Intensive Hindi Courses

If you want to fast track your language learning, our intensive Hindi courses cover more ground in less time. Ideal for students who wish to be fully immersed, these courses are offered every weekday for four intense weeks.

Urdu Classes

Zabaan conducts regular Saturday classes for Hindi speakers or advanced Hindi students who wish to learn to learn how to read and write Urdu. Sign-up for our Certificate Course in Urdu Script and start your language learning journey today!

Customised Classes

For students with specific goals or a unique schedule, private lessons are custom tailored to improve your language skills at a pace and learning style that’s right for you. These can be scheduled one-on-one or in small groups at our centres or online.

Success Stories

As India’s premier foreign language school with centres in New Delhi and Mumbai, Zabaan provides high-quality instruction in more than fifteen languages — both modern and classical — originating from South Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. United by a passion for language learning and decades of collective teaching experience, Zabaan’s multinational team of teachers has a proven track record of success in achieving proficiency for their students. Zabaan is widely known for its Hindi classes for expats and foreigners and Urdu classes for Hindi speakers.

Who do we work with

Our students include diplomats from many High Commissions and Embassies in New Delhi and Mumbai; they also include staff from international media sector, business professionals from the corporate sector, NGO workers, actors, film producers and directors, as well as their spouses, partners and other family members.

Our current and former students include people from:

High Commission of Singapore	Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Embassy of UAE	Middlebury College
Qatar Embassy	Australian National University
United States Air Force	Harvard University
United States Department of Defence	University of Princeton
Samsung	University of Wisconsin Madison
Sony	University of California, Berkeley
Fulbright Scholars	Yale University

What our students say

I have completed two Hindi intensives at Zabaan and I have to say that this school is amazing. The knowledge of Hindi grammar, sentence structure, script, tenses, etc. from every teacher is impeccable. They are truly grammartarians.

David, 7 May 2019

Having studied both Hindi and Urdu at Zabaan for over two years, I have nothing but praise for the hard work all the staff puts in to make learning interesting, inspiring and efficient.

Pia, 30 April 2019

In my experience, Zabaan stands out for its combination of teachers who know Hindi in depth but also have an incredibly profound and helpful meta-understanding of the language–things like grammar, syntax, and tone/context.

Thomas, 26 January 2019

Read more about the learning experience at Zabaan on our testimonials page.

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Book Classes

Take classes at our centre in Kailash Colony, New Delhi, or online via Skype or Google Hangouts.

New courses!

At Zabaan, we are working constantly on new courses and materials and teaching methodologies! We are proud to introduce four new courses as part of our offerings in Delhi. Check them out!

Home Tuition

We recommend taking classes at our centre. However, if you are unable to travel and are looking for classes at your home or workplace, please email us at learn@zabaan.com or fill out the form below and we’ll get back to you with a quotation, if it’s possible for us to send a teacher to your location. Also, you can always take your classes online with us!

Latest Blog Posts

We love writing about language learning and teaching and our teachers’ and students’ language learning experiences! Read some of our latest blog posts here:

Comprehending Shakespeare

by Rakesh Saraf | January 6, 2020 | Literature, Old English | 1 Comment

In this blog Rakesh Saraf talks about reading Shakespeare and why he is still relevant today. “Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools ...

Urdu — The Maddening Language of Love

by Rakesh Saraf | December 12, 2019 | Learning and Teaching, Urdu | 0 Comments

In this blog Rakesh Saraf talks about the challenges he faced while learning how to read and write Urdu. “Arabians learn Arabian with the speed of summer lightning. And the Hebrews learn it backwards, which is absolutely frightening.” I remember these...

Learning — The Magic Potion

by Rakesh Saraf | December 3, 2019 | Learning and Teaching | 1 Comment

In this blog Rakesh Saraf talks about the benefits of continuing learning well into one's silver years. I was 67 years old when I looked at my collection of old Urdu literature, with prints from the 1920s onwards, once again in despair. Was I going to the grave...

The Four Mahāvākya-s

by Neha Tiwari | September 11, 2019 | Classical languages, Philosophy, Sanskrit, Spirituality | 1 Comment

The Upanishads are a repository of some of the finest and most intricate thoughts and sayings in the Indian philosophical and spiritual tradition. Of these, traditionally, four sayings (vākya), one from each of the Vedas, are said to sum up the essence of all the...

‘ज़बान’ की अहमियत

by Zabaan | March 27, 2019 | Learning and Teaching | 0 Comments

One of our student coordinators, Varsha, shares her thoughts about the importance of learning any language. रफ़्तार से दौड़ती यह ज़िंदगी और इस ज़िंदगी में ‘ज़बान’ की अहमियत बहुत कम लोग समझ पाते हैं । ज़बान ही तो है जो कभी नज़रों में उठा देती है और कभी नज़रों से गिरा...

Beautifully Broken: Understanding the Peculiarities of Bambaiyya Hindi

by Srotoswini Sarma | March 12, 2019 | Grammar, Hindi, Marathi | 2 Comments

In this blog Srotoswini delves into the idiosyncracies of Hindi as spoken in Mumbai! “…ye saala men log, humesha humari vaat laga deta hai!, ” - a woman, complaining about her daily life at work. “…arey bantai, mai kabse idharich khada hai. Tereko time pe aane ka na...